The incident happened in Ponte do Esqueleto, on the border of Limeira and Cordeir\u00f3polis, in the interior of S\u00e3o Paulo, Brazil. <\/p>\n
In the footage posted on social media, two men in white helmets can be seen holding Rodrigues de Freitas, 21, by her arms while a third is behind holding her feet. <\/p>\n
When she is cast off the bridge, an onlooker screams at the instructors to attach her cord. <\/p>\n
The three men were wearing harnesses that appear to be attached to a security rope.<\/p>\n
Rodrigues de Freitas was buried the following day.<\/p>\n
Rope-jumping is an extreme sport that differs from bungee jumping. <\/p>\n
It uses low-stretch climbing ropes that convert the fall into a horizontal, pendulum swing, while bungee jumping uses an elastic rubber cord that creates a vertical, bouncing effect.<\/p>\n
The bridge, called “Skeleton Bridge” has been abandoned for years and falls under responsibility of the federal government. Brazil’s Secretariat of Federal Assets (SPU) said it was “available to assist the authorities in the investigations”. <\/p>\n
The City Hall of Limeira (SP) announced it would sue the federal government for failing to adequately manage the bridge. <\/p>\n
It said it “had been adopting administrative measures and demanding action from the federal agencies responsible for the area”. <\/p>\n
Rodrigues de Freitas’ death “makes the continuation of this omission unsustainable and unacceptable”, the statement continued.<\/p>\n
Local officials said the instructors had belonged to a private company that offered rope-jumping activities, though some local reports suggest they had belonged to informal groups of practitioners.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The incident happened in Ponte do Esqueleto, on the border of Limeira and Cordeir\u00f3polis, in the interior of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":639794,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-639793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=639793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639793\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/639794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=639793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=639793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=639793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}